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Help choosing a car (self.cars)

submitted 1 year ago by Hastur to c/cars

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Need help choosing a car. Australia.

Need a car that primarily has the capacity to tow 2 tonnes, as it's going to be used to tow a 1.6T car + dual axel trailer + loaded with sundries ect for Melbourne and Sydney and inbetween to take a car to carshows. Expect to be towing 2 weekends a month.

Is also going to be the only everyday use car so needs to get into the underground/multistory carparks just fine.

My building is a 1.7m height limit on the parking garage due to using stacking carlifts. So anything that is a classic 4WD is most likely out.

Not too concerned about make/model but I don't want to just go with a SUV or a dualcab ute (personal choice, getting up into those raised cars is actually harder for wheelchair access). Things like the old outbacks I've seen put into the SUV category on carsales but i wouldnt consider them a SUV as the seats are at normal car height.

What's out there that I might have missed on the second hand market around the 20-25k that is going to be a balance of city runaround and towing??

Top contender right now is the Golf wagon alltrack.

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[–] Delphia 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BA Falcon wagon with LPG.

[–] Delphia 4 points 1 year ago

Check out this 2007 Ford Falcon XT BF Mk II Auto. https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2007-ford-falcon-xt-bf-mk-ii-auto/SSE-AD-15563212

Tow rated at 2300kg and pretty low Kms. Also well under budget.

[–] phamanhvu01 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AU Falcon of course, there's no other choice /s

[–] Hastur 3 points 1 year ago

As long as it's done up like lowndes' green eyed monster lol